In "What We Made," Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist,
participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in
contemporary art. He suggests social cooperation as a meaningful
way to think about this work and provides a framework for
understanding its emergence and acceptance. In a series of fifteen
conversations, artists comment on their experiences working
cooperatively, joined at times by colleagues from related fields,
including social policy, architecture, art history, urban planning,
and new media. Issues discussed include the experiences of working
in public and of working with museums and libraries, opportunities
for social change, the lines between education and art,
spirituality, collaborative opportunities made available by new
media, and the elusive criteria for evaluating cooperative art.
Finkelpearl engages the art historians Grant Kester and Claire
Bishop in conversation on the challenges of writing critically
about this work and the aesthetic status of the dialogical
encounter. He also interviews the often overlooked co-creators of
cooperative art, "expert participants" who have worked with
artists. In his conclusion, Finkelpearl argues that pragmatism
offers a useful critical platform for understanding the
experiential nature of social cooperation, and he brings pragmatism
to bear in a discussion of Houston's "Project Row Houses."
"Interviewees." Naomi Beckwith, Claire Bishop, Tania Bruguera,
Brett Cook, Teddy Cruz, Jay Dykeman, Wendy Ewald, Sondra Farganis,
Harrell Fletcher, David Henry, Gregg Horowitz, Grant Kester, Mierle
Laderman Ukeles, Pedro Lasch, Rick Lowe, Daniel Martinez, Lee
Mingwei, Jonah Peretti, Ernesto Pujol, Evan Roth, Ethan Seltzer,
and Mark Stern
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